An Analysis of Translator's Subjectivity from Comparative Research of Chinese Versions of Shakespearean Sonnets

Shakespeare's sonnets,the brightest pearls of the world literature,have aroused great interest of scholars in China.Reception Aesthetics emphasizes the in literature works and subjectivity in readers' reading,who believe the process of the reader's receiving the translation is the process of the recreation of the piece of work,and at the same time in this process the literature features realize.Therefore,the translator in the translation process should concretize spots of indeterminacy of literature works,taking the horizon of expectations of the target language readers into consideration,to achieve the optimal reception of the translated text.From the perspective of Reception Aesthetics,this paper attempts to explore the translator's subjectivity based on the comparative analysis of theme,content,form and style in three Chinese versions of Shakespeare's Sonnet 12 and Sonnet 29 by Liang Zongdai,Tu An and Gu Zhengkun respectively.The paper comes to the conclusion after the comparative analysis and research: the credibility of Liang's version,the loyalty of Tu's version and readability of Gu's version have met the aesthetics expectations from different periods of time.The three translator's subjectivity were realized in their translation versions successively.